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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Adduser or useradd Post 302845199 by Zeldforged on Wednesday 21st of August 2013 04:52:38 AM
Old 08-21-2013
Adduser or useradd

I am just wondering why there are two similar commands for creating a user. Could you please point me when I should choose adduser and when useradd? This puzzles me a little.

Thanks,
Panos
 

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SBUILD-ADDUSER(8)						   Debian sbuild						 SBUILD-ADDUSER(8)

NAME
sbuild-adduser - add an sbuild user SYNOPSIS
sbuild-adduser [-h|--help | -V|--version] USER1 [USER2 [USERn...]] DESCRIPTION
sbuild-adduser adds the specified users to the sbuild group, granting them the privelege to build packages with sbuild(1). The schroot(1) configuration must permit the user to obtain root permissions in the chroot via the root-users and root-groups options in schroot.conf, because this is required to install and remove build-dependencies inside the chroot. This is normally done using the sbuild group, but additional users or groups may be added in order to grant finer-grained permissions, for example to restrict individual users to particular chroots. OPTIONS
Actions -h, --help Display this manual. -V, --version Print version information. User selection USER The user to be granted sbuild access. EXAMPLES
To allow user rleigh sbuild access: % sudo sbuild-adduser rleigh AUTHORS
Roger Leigh. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
sbuild(1), sbuild-setup(7), schroot.conf(5). Version 0.63.2 18 Aug 2012 SBUILD-ADDUSER(8)
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